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in cahoots

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in cahoots (with someone)
Rur. in conspiracy with someone; in league with someone. The mayor is in cahoots with the construction company that got the contract for the new building. Those two have been in cahoots before.
See also: cahoots

in cahoots (with somebody)
working secretly with someone She was in cahoots with this guy who was smuggling drugs across the border.
Usage notes: usually said about doing something dishonest
See also: cahoots


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The report contained some good news, in that there is little evidence terrorists and pirate syndicates are in cahoots.
In July, when Israel's destruction of Lebanon had accelerated, a variation of this discourse began to emerge: the notion that one cannot rightly distinguish between terrorists and civilians because most of the civilians in Lebanon were either in cahoots or sympathy with Hizbullah.
Apparently, this vertically-challenged guy was in cahoots with the whole bar, as the entire crowd of people followed as Machnau and the midget were being dragged out the door.
 
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